Memory Quotes

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If technology is not a metaphor for memory, what is it? — K.K. Raghava
This is taking [photos] from everybody - the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like - and linking all of that together. — Blaise Aguera y Arcas
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and… — Ariel Dorfman
Memory narrativises itself. — Aleksandar Hemon
Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy. — Gilbert Parker
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul. — Richard Schickel
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. — Emile M. Cioran
We can invent only with memory. — Alphonse Karr
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. — Ned Rorem
Language is memory and metaphor. — Storm Jameson
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? — Martin Farquhar Tupper
Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape. — Janet Fitch
Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for… — Gunter Grass
I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are… — Kazuo Ishiguro
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have… — W G Sebald
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil? — Alfred de Vigny
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually… — Joshua Foer
Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition. — Hilary Mantel
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. — Elie Wiesel

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